Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
IOWA CONDENSER.


time. owing to i'll health, and few
years ago attempted suicide, but was
prevented by his friends. Every effort
has been made since then to prevent a
repetition of the attempt, but May 10Th,
while laboring under increased despond-
| ency, he stole upstairs to the attic, and
soon after was found by his wife lying
dead, with frightful cash in his throat,
while in the right hand he grasped rus.
ty razor The doctor was Immediately
summoned but pronounced the case be-
yond his skill. Mr. Holbrook was forty
six years old, and came to Iowa twenty
one years ago, settling in West Union.
Early in 1886 he moved to Des Moines,
taking up his residence with his wife and
SON. who alone survive him.
There are few If any cities in Iowa en-.
joying the boom that What Cheer is at
present. Six new brick blocks, among
them $15. 900 one, are to be erected this
summer that are now known, and perhaps
others. Over forty residences have been
built or are building this spring, and
some of them of a very costly and ele-
CANT character. What Cheer has bright
future before it.
The Great Rock Island Route announces
an excursion rate of one first class fare
for the round trip to Ottawa, Kansas,
and return, on account of the annual
meeting of the German Baptist Brethren.
Tickets good for going passage May 25th
to goth, inclusive, and for return passage
thirty days from date of sale. Free re.
clining chair cars, magnificent Pullman
palace sleeping cars, elegant day coaches,
unequalled dining cars two daily trains
each way. For further particulars ad-
dress Il. A. HoLBRooK, G. 7. & p. A.
c.. r. I. g. p R'y, Chicago, Ill
About o'clock on the afternoon of
May 8, several little boys none over Z
years, playing in the barn of Mrs. Fairall,
at Iowa City, set fire to the barn, and
Kirk, the 5-year. old son of Herbert s.
Fairall, editor of the Daily Republican,
was burned to death. The little son of
Prof. L. M. Booth was badly burned
about the head and breast
The issue above all others at Osceola.
Is the court house question. 1t is to be
voted on June |. 1t is proposed to have
one costing $50, 900, with an issue of bonds
At not more than per cent interest, the
ast to be paid in 1897, and to place it in
the Osceola park. Farmers have voted
DOWN such proposition once or twice
before, and there are strong doubts about
its carrying
The Benzine paint works, near the
Inion depot, Grinnell. burned May 10.
Loss, $500; f. c. Taylor. 5000 on paints,
and the balance on buildings, etc, be-
.onging to the Consolidated Tank Line.
The most of the oil was rolled out and
saved. No insurance.
Mrs. Susan b. Lawrence, the first white
woman who occupied the soil of Dubuque,
died May 10, at a very advanced age.
She came to Dubuque county in 1928,
living for awhile in Wisconsin across the
river, and removing to Dubuque in 1882,
at which time there was not house in
The city, and she occupied the first one
that was built
On account of a strike by the Omaha
painters and paper hangers there is now a
demand for good worknen, who can OBJ
tain from So. so to $500 per day, accord
ing to qualifications,
A special from Extra, on the 18th, says;
Fire broke out in the hardware store OF
Fulton Bros last night, ON the north and
west side of Washington street, and rap
idly spread, and now the whole block on
the north side from Geo. Hardenbrook's
to Withaur g. Bowman's is in entire
ruins. The fire did not harm Wood.
wards blacksmith shop and the south
side of the street is not burned The
loss is estimated at between $50, 900 and
$4,000.
A telegram received at Mason City.
May 10, announced that Will Deyoe, 20
years old, son of wealthy parents at that
place, had been found drowned at Love
Rock. Wis For some time he had shown
indications of unsound mind, and was
sent to Wisconsin in the hope of regain
ing his health. He was missing for two
weeks before the body was found, and he
undoubtedly committed suicide.
The State Railway Station agents clos
ed their annual meeting at Iowa City,
May II. The officers elected were: F. d.
Lindsey, of Iowa City, President; Vice
President, Walker, of Wilton; Secretary,
Fisher, of Spencer; Treasurer, Deidrick,
of Independence.
A supposed incendiary fire at Earlville,
between II p. m. and 2 a. m on the night
of may II, destroyed fifteen business
houses and four dwellings, leaving moth
ing standing north of the railroad track
except two drug and one hardware store.
The loss is $3.50, 900; insurance $75, 900.
A strong wind was blowing and the town
had no steam ingine
Monte Harris, a sixteen-year- old son of
James Harris, living about twelve miles
south of Garden Grove, Decatur county,
Iowa, took his dog and gun and went
squirrel hunting, Tuesday, May 10. The
boy not returning his father and brother
searched all day Wednesday, but with out
succeeding in finding any trace of the
missing boy. On their return home
Wednesday evening they found the dog.
This alarmed the family, who had con.
soled themselves with the thought that
the boy had gone to town or to some
neighbours and stayed longer than he
ought. Early in the morning the neigh
hood was aroused and in short time the
boy was found dead in the bed of creek
mile or so from the house, shot in the
left breast, and all of his clothing on the
upper part Of his body burned off. or
course it is not known just how the acct
dent occurred, but the theory is that the
boy started to walk the foot log across
the creek and probably struck his gun
against tree at the side Of the log, dis
charging the gun with above fatal result
From appearances, when the body was
found, death resulted almost instantan-
eously with the discharge of the gun.